Based on a Winnebago County jury’s answer to a special interrogatory that followed the format approved in Garcia v. Seneca Nursing Home, 2011 IL App (1st) 103085, for a crucial query about proximate causation, Circuit Judge J. Edward Prochaska reluctantly tossed out a $1.5 million verdict in a wrongful-death case against a social worker (Lori Ortberg) and her employer (Rockford Memorial Hospital) for allegedly failing to recognize that Keith Stanphill was suicidal when she evaluated his mental health a week before he …